Taka: So, no new reviews

Maki: NONE AT ALL!

Taka: hopes that this chapter will be better than the last

Maki: This will explain most of the empty gaps in the plot so far.

Other Voice: I'm proud of you two! Not an argument yet!

Taka: yeah, yeah, on with the story.

Chapter 8 "To fill in the gaps"

Recap:

"But it's not just a story"

Kagome, a grown woman, walked into the room shortly after her eldest child and niece left.

"Kaede-obachan?"

"Ah, Kagome child. I just finished tellin ye story to the young ones."

"I know grandmother. I was listening. I thought you light like to know what really happened."

"Do go on child, ye know it better than I," Kaede said, gesturing to a tamati.

Well.........you had it right up to meeting Kikyou........."

The demon army was defeated. Kagome, Inuyasha, Kouga, Nokamis, Sango, Miroku, Jaken, and Kirara with the younger ones stood in front of Kikyou.

"Kikyou.........please, please don't say you've gone over to him! Please!" Inuyasha begged, hoping beyond hope that the dead miko was still on their side.

"Inuyasha, you and your band of petty mortals will fail. I seek to win. I will join whom I please. It is not up to you to dictate my life!" Kikyou stormed angrily.

"Kikyou," Kagome started, playing her last card against the other miko, "I have a message for you."

"A message? No one would wish to speak to me. I am dead. The living rarely care about those who have passed on," the miko, suprisingly, hung her head.

"The message is from one who you thought was dead."

"You lie," Kikyou said plainly.

With that, the dead miko launched herself at Inuyasha. Taken by surprise, the hanyou had no time to defend himself from the blade that sank into his stomach.

"Now, Inuyasha, you will watch as I kill your friends, the girl first, and then you will come to hell with me. You will do this because that blade is poisoned."

Kikyou turned then to Kagome. She notched an arrow and aimed.

"No!" Inuyasha's cry rang out in duet to the ring of Tetsuseiga being drawn from its sheath. With a single swipe, Kikyou lay on the ground, crumbling to dust before their very eyes.

"Kikyou!"

"Kikyou you must listen to me!" Kagome said, kneeling by the disappearing miko, "The message, it's from my mother. She says to tell you that she is okay, and not to worry."

"Why would I care about your mother?" Kikyou spat

"Because you know her. Her name is Kamika, and the monk here, Miroku, is her son."

"Kamika? You mean.........Mika.........my.........best.........friend.........alive?........."

"Yes Kikyou," Kagome said, "She's alive and well for the most part."

"Tell her.........that.........I'm sorry."

With that, Kikyou's remains, a pile of dust, were blown away by a sudden wind.

"You were right again, up until where Inuyasha couldn't find me. You see, I was out walking with Kaizoe and Shippo, when Naraku came out of no where.

Kaizoe, it seems, was a Naraku minion. She led me away from the village where Naraku could capture me."

Kagome paused for a moment to let this sink in, then she continued, " Shippo changed into a spider and climbed onto my shoulder and stayed there. He wouldn't leave me. Even when I blacked out.

When I awoke I was in a room in Naraku's castle. I was out of my school uniform and in miko attire. What was strange was that I could not move, speak, only think on my own. At first I thought I was paralyzed, but then my body started moving on its own accord. Naraku was controlling me.

It was only when he ordered me to kill Sango that I broke free.

During the battle Kikyou's poison started working. Inuyasha was k-killed," Kagome paused again, this time to build up the courage to continue telling the story, "The wind tunnel got Miroku, and Sango went with him. Demons got Kirara and Nokamis. Naraku killed Sesshomaru himself, chopping him to death. Shippo and Rin died by demon hands. I think that Sesshomaru himself killed Jaken. Good riddance. I think that Naraku took Kohaku's shard after he failed to kill Sango, Inuyasha fell on the body of the poor kid.

Kouga, no one knows exactly how he dies, just that one-minute he was standing and the next, he was dead on the ground. Naraku cut off Kagura's life supply."

Kagome took a huge intake of breath, "after Naraku's claws got my back, I had some kind of fit. It was like I was being controlled again, but not by Naraku. Anyway, I released some sort of power that destroyed Naraku's body. All that was left was his black soul. Suddenly, I knew that I had to destroy it. I didn't know how, but blue lightning just started coming from my hands. I blacked out again, and when I woke, the soul was gone, and I had to whole jewel. The rest, you know."

Kaede thanked Kagome for sharing her story.

Taka: Now we will skip ahead quite a few years. Inuyasha and Kagome's eldest daughter, Hiroka, is eighteen. Their sons, Masao, Yuriie and Seiki are ten, eight and three, in that order.

Maki: Sango and Miroku have five kids. Twins, Yashii and Kenzo, age seventeen, Akio, ten, Takami, nine, and Kameko, seven.

Taka: Sesshomaru and Rin have two kids.

Maki: Surprised? Thought not.

Taka: As I was saying, two kids. Kadaii, fifteen and Asako, fourteen.

Maki: and now for the big surprise! Kouga and Kagura have three kids.

Taka: Bet you didn't see that coming

Maki: The kids are Taro, age eighteen. And the twin girls Naomi and Sachiko, twelve.

Taka: oh, yeah, Kirara and Nokamis got together. They had three kittens/kids. They are all one litter, so to speak, so therefor, Shidobu, Taka and Maki are all fifteen.

Maki: I love the names! giggles

Taka: This story takes place twenty-three years after Kagome fell into the well. So Shippo would be thirty-one, but because he's a demon, that puts his 'human' age at about.........fifteen, nearly sixteen.

Maki: Do you think they need to know everyone else's ages?

Taka: Why not?

Maki: Kagome- 38
Inu- 39
Miroku- 42
Sango- 39
Sess- who knows, 523 maybe
Rin- 31 (she had kids at.........16?)
Kouga- umm... not sure, lets say 41
Kagura- well, seeing as she was created we'll pick an age, 38
Kirara- unknown
Nokamis- same situation as Kagura. No age picked.

Taka: Now that you know all this, we're going to stop here.

Maki: What? You didn't think we'd keep going did you?

Taka: Give us five new reviews and we'll post chapter nine.

Other Voice: Are you two done talking so we can go already?

Maki and Taka: Yup!

Other Voice: Ja Ne and Feh!